mardi 20 septembre 2011

Source ArtInfoThe mostly strong sales during September Asia Week showed that — no surprise — the thirst for Asian art continues to be powerful, and that, this year at least, Christie's leads the way as the top auctioneer for the market category. The Rockefeller Center-based house posted a strong sales in four of the five auctions it held to take home $75.8 Million, while its York Avenue competitor, Sotheby's, had only middling results after its three auctions, bringing in $31.5 million. Hugo Weihe, the head of the South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art department at Christie's, referred to Husain as "clearly one of the founding fathers of Indian modern art," and told ARTINFO that "after the sale, every collector in the field will need to have a work of Husain's." Weihe added that he has noticed a relatively new trend of Chinese collectors showing up in the salesrooms of Indian art auctions.> read more

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samedi 17 septembre 2011

Source The PioneerOne of the last reports regarding the Hadron Collider experiment, mentioned the search for the God Particle was unsuccessful. And that scientists were planning to call the highly publicised event quits. The attempt hasn’t been shut down yet. However, it looks like theories of the birth of the universe will continue to be a topic for much endless speculation. Shampa Shah, who curated the event, mentioned that tribal myths generally tend to happen fall into three categories. Those of origin. Of sustenance. And destruction. This idea parallels the one about primordial Hindu Gods, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, representing creation, preservation and destruction. It is anyone’s guess which influenced which. What is also interesting, is in complete contrast to the Big Bang Theory, tribal myths throw the idea out, that at the start was zero, or nothingness.> read more

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vendredi 16 septembre 2011

Source Livemint by Sanjukta SharmaDodiya was born in 1959 to a Kathiawadi family living in Ghatkopar. “In the early 1970s, through Doordarshan, I was educated in the cinema of Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, two big influences in my life, especially Ray. A few years later, I also saw films by Truffaut and other European masters. Bollywood was always there,” says Dodiya, adding that cinema is a big part of his life and a way to understanding deeply human concerns. Dodiya joined Mumbai’s Sir JJ School of Art in the mid-1980s. He met his wife-to-be Anju there and had his first solo show of oil paintings in 1989 at the Chemould gallery. Shireen Gandhy, for whom it was the first exhibition as a gallerist, says: “Atul has transformed from an artist to someone akin to a teacher since then. That was not a fertile time as far as art was concerned. There was no market as such for artists. But he made a mark.” Two years after his first solo, Dodiya received a French government fellowship to spend a year in Paris. It was a time of anxiety and questioning, says Anju. “We would visit the Picasso Museum often; it was just a street away from where we were staying. Atul thought it was already a dead end for him because whatever was left to be done in art has been done, what else could he do?> read more

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jeudi 15 septembre 2011

Source The Wall Street Journal by Margherita StancatiMr. Husain has long been in the “one million dollar club,” artists who sold a single piece for that sum or more. His “Empty Bowl at the Last Supper,” sold for $2 million in 2005 –at the time the highest sum ever paid for a work of modern Indian art. More recently, in 2008, his “Battle of Ganga and Jamuna: Mahabharata” a diptych inspired by the ancient Hindu epic, sold for $1.6 million. His record-breaking sales figures remain behind S.H. Raza’s and Tyeb Mehta’s. Mr. Raza’s “Saurashtra,” a geometrical painting rich in reds and greens, sold for $3.5 million in 2010. No other work of modern or contemporary Indian art has ever sold for that much. Works by Mr. Mehta – an artist of Mr. Husain’s generation but far less prolific – periodically break the one-million-dollar mark. His diptych “Bulls,” which sold for $2.8 million in March, was seen as a sign that the Indian art market was on the way to recovery from the economic downturn.> read more

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samedi 10 septembre 2011

Source Tehelka by Janani GanesanIndia doesn’t have a culture policy. This might be because the creation of a culture policy in a country as heterogeneous as ours is too dangerous a tinderbox for anyone to touch. But in the absence of a policy and any commitment to cultural activity, do we really need a Ministry of Culture? Could privatisation be the way forward? Unfortunately, no. Not even the most exasperated of our respondents wished the State to step out of the game altogether. Says Samson, “One person with a dream and a few good friends can make a huge difference to the arts. But private bodies serve small communities and are for the few, by a few.”> read more

mercredi 7 septembre 2011

Source Times of India by Pranava Kumar ChaudharyThe Bihar government has decided to actively involve the country's leading contemporary artist, Subodh Gupta, in various development projects, including the upcoming international museum and the state's centenary celebrations. Gupta, who was in town on Monday on an invite from the government, met HRD principal secretary Anjani K Singh, who is also the nodal officer of these projects. The duo discussed the details of the projects. "I was born in Bihar and it's my pride and pleasure to assist the government As an artist, I will do whatever I can," the Khagaul-born celebrity said even as he expressed his "amazement and pleasure to see the changing profile of Bihar as a result of the untiring efforts of chief minister Nitish Kumar".> read more

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Herve Perdriolle

samedi 3 septembre 2011

Source Northern VoicesDr. Inglis is a Canadian anthropologist and art historian who specialises in the artistic traditions of the indigenous peoples of North America. He was for over 25 years a curator and Director-General of Research and Collections at the Canadian Museum of Civilisation, Canada’s national museum of history and ethnology. Dr Inglis is also a well-known specialist in the traditional arts of India. He holds a M.A. in Museology and Indian Art from Calcutta University in India, where he studied Indian art and architecture, folk arts and crafts, and ethnography of tribal societies.
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